The Politics of Jewish Studies Anything Happened?

Jewish Studies, Migration and

Russian-Speaking Jews
Karen Körber (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen
Workshop at the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies Juden, Hamburg)
July 11–13 2022
The Politics of Jewish Revival: Notes on a German
Organized by Johannes Becke (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) in Phenomenon
cooperation with Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Hannah Tzuberi (Freie Universität Berlin)
Jewish Studies, Potsdam University), Hannah Tzuberi (Institute of Islamic
Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) and Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg Center for 3.30 – 4 p.m. COFFEE BREAK
Transcultural Studies). Supported by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und
Halbach Foundation. Unless otherwise specified, all panels take place in 4 – 5.30 p.m. JEWISH STUDIES IN EUROPE
Chair: Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Center for
room S4.
European Jewish Studies)

From Jewish Studies to Critical Jewish Studies

Monday 11 July Bart Wallet & Irene Zwiep (University of Amsterdam)

1 p.m. LUNCH Deadly Clutch: Jewish Studies in Germany and the

Increasing Encroachment of Protestant Theology
1.45 p.m. WELCOME Hanna Liss (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)

2 p.m. JEWISH STUDIES AND THE POLITICS OF JEWISH REVIVAL 5.30 – 7 p.m. BREAK
Chair: Johannes Becke (Heidelberg Center for Jewish
Studies) 7 p.m. KEYNOTE (Alte Aula, Grabengasse 1)

The Politics of Jewish Demography in Germany The Politics of Jewish History: Definitional, Historical, and
Uzi Rebhun (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Personal Reflections David N. Myers (UCLA)

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Tuesday 12 July Making Yiddish German Again? Afterlives of a
Problematic Idea
9–10.30 a.m. JEWISH STUDIES AND ISRAEL STUDIES/PALESTINE Roland Gruschka (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)
STUDIES
Chair: Benjamin Weineck (Heidelberg University) Philozionism and the Question of (Anti-)German
Exceptionalism
Integrating Israel Studies and Middle East Studies Johannes Becke (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)
Liora Sion (University of Copenhagen) and Tom Würdemann (Heidelberg University)

The Politics of Israel Studies: Insights from a Journal The Study of Antisemitism and Jewish Studies: Two
Editor Research Fields Drifting Apart?
Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies) Uffa Jensen (Center for Antisemitism Studies, Technical
University Berlin)
10.30–11a.m. COFFEE BREAK
4 – 4.30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK

11a.m.– JEWISH STUDIES AND THE POSTCOLONIAL CHALLENGE

12.30 p.m. Chair: Liza Franke (Heidelberg University) 4.30 – 6 p.m. THE POLITICS OF MUSEOLOGICAL REPRESENTATIONS
Chair: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University)
Jewish Studies, Postcolonial Studies: An Encounter with
Albert Memmi Jewish Museums: Studies and Politics
Yael Attia (University of Potsdam) Annette Weber (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)

On Critical Jewish Studies “There is a ‘but’” – Early Insights about Dark History,
Elad Lapidot (University of Lille) Jewish Museums, and User Generated Content in Online
Platforms
12.30 – 2 p.m. LUNCH Omri Grinberg (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)

2.30 – 4 p.m. PHILOSEMITISM, ANTISEMITISM AND ANTI- Memory Cultures in Kurdistan and Israel/Palestine
ANTISEMITISM Bareez Majid (Heidelberg University)
Chair: Hannah Tzuberi (Freie Universität Berlin)

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6 p.m. DISCUSSION WITH BUFFET: JEWISH STUDIES AS A
POLITICAL FIELD Response by Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Center
for European Jewish Studies)
David Myers (UCLA), Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn
Center for European Jewish Studies), Hannah Tzuberi 1 p.m. LUNCH
(Freie Universität Berlin), Johannes Becke (Heidelberg
Center for Jewish Studies), Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg
Center for Transcultural Studies) and everybody else

Wednesday 13 July
9 – 10.30 a.m. JEWISH STUDIES AND MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS
Chair: Elisabeth Becker-Topkara (Heidelberg University)

Between Academia and Activism. Reflections on the

Place of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Jewish Studies
Frederek Musall (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)

The Potential of Jewish Perspectives for Political

Philosophy. Critique from the Margins
Hannah Peaceman (University of Jena)

10.30–11 a.m. COFFEE BREAK

11a.m.– JEWISH STUDIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES

12.30 p.m. Chair: Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Center for
European Jewish Studies)
Jewish Studies and the Politics of Digitization
Gerben Zaagsma (University of Luxembourg)